CVE-2020-15174

Summary

In Electron before versions 11.0.0-beta.1, 10.0.1, 9.3.0 or 8.5.1 the will-navigate event that apps use to prevent navigations to unexpected destinations as per our security recommendations can be bypassed when a sub-frame performs a top-frame navigation across sites. The issue is patched in versions 11.0.0-beta.1, 10.0.1, 9.3.0 or 8.5.1 As a workaround sandbox all your iframes using the sandbox attribute. This will prevent them creating top-frame navigations and is good practice anyway.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
electronelectron>= 8.0.0-beta.0, < 8.5.1affected
electronelectron>= 9.0.0-beta.0, < 9.3.0affected
electronelectron>= 10.0.0-beta.0, < 10.0.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-693: CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure
  • CWE-20: CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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